Alice Munro is an atomic writer blasting doors into narrative time. — David Means Atomic Copy Share Image
I think all good short stories are about what it means to tell a good story. — David Means Good Copy Share Image
I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge… — David Means Books Copy Share Image
Wars never simply end, not for those in combat and not for the culture, and one way or another, they shape-shift from… — David Means Culture Copy Share Image
I was an at-home father, taking care of them for seven years when they were babies. I was one of those new-age,… — David Means Babies Copy Share Image
A kiss is often about the future and the past. A lost dream, about the discretion of the idealism. — David Means Dream Copy Share Image
Iggy Pop is a pure Michigan product - gritty, smart, but not afraid of looking stupid or foolish. His father was once… — David Means Age Copy Share Image
I love novels, and I read them more than anything, but stories cut in sharp and hard and are able to reveal… — David Means Books Copy Share Image
In 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac,' Mr. Yorke's lyrics were often unfathomable, moaned and mumbled and forced beneath the surface of the music.… — David Means Amnesiac Copy Share Image
I love the nooks and crannies of the American landscape; the back roads and back alleys, the places that are still untouched… — David Means Alleys Copy Share Image
You don't know what you need when you're a young writer. You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but… — David Means Advice Copy Share Image
Every interaction with another person involves a dance of expectation, even when you're just passing someone in the street. Inside those moments… — David Means Dance Copy Share Image
As a story writer, you have work with sharp but relatively small tools, the picks of metaphor, the shovel blade of images,… — David Means Delicate Copy Share Image
In the days following 9/11, when we were reeling and disoriented, there was a kind of solace to be found in old… — David Means Bygone days Copy Share Image
I'm not at all interested in simply reporting what's here right now, or cranking out an entertainment device that's going to touch… — David Means Deep Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if a writer should talk about themes. Themes arrive out of the deeper structure and concerns, but to me,… — David Means Draft Copy Share Image
I like landscape, I guess. It's kind of a game to see how you can describe it. — David Means Game Copy Share Image
Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write. — David Means More Copy Share Image
America turns its back on the mentally ill. It likes to think it doesn't, but it does. — David Means America Copy Share Image
You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make. — David Means Does Copy Share Image
There's a huge distance between who I am as a regular person and what takes place in my fiction. — David Means Distance Copy Share Image
Those who see beauty almost too intensely can easily look mad to those who are functioning within the confines of so-called normal… — David Means Beauty Copy Share Image
History is delusional. Not just an illusion, it's a delusion. America is this giant country, so it has these big delusions, and… — David Means America Copy Share Image
I think that those moments before a performer plays are the moments when the potential for something to be created may -… — David Means I think Copy Share Image
Vietnam and Iraq are part of the same national trauma and delusion; we folded the war up when Reagan became president and… — David Means Delusion Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from. — David Means American Copy Share Image
It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel. — David Means Books Copy Share Image
I've got deep roots in Kalamazoo, with a grandfather, Harold Allen, who was a big part of Upjohn Co. for many years… — David Means Big Copy Share Image
The short story is kind of a precision tool. It allows me a certain type of freedom to go in and out… — David Means American Copy Share Image
I think a good story can do as much as a novel; not the exact same thing, of course, but just as… — David Means Books Copy Share Image
I write first drafts by hand, often out of the house somewhere, and then, when I've got a draft, type it up… — David Means Draft Copy Share Image
A few days after 9/11, I put the old cassette of 'Born in the U.S.A.,' twisted and worn, on the car deck… — David Means Born Copy Share Image
There is this idea of 'north,' and if you're from Michigan and you wandered the Upper Peninsula, you know what it feels… — David Means Canada Copy Share Image
The more you know about Bob Dylan, the less you know. A truly enigmatic artist, Mr. Dylan's work and life offer vaporous… — David Means Art Copy Share Image
